The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SIX HORSES were required last week to draw
the single stone to be used in the porch of the
new court house at Northampton. Mass. 1t is
one of the largest dressed stones in the county,
being II feet square, 10 inches thick and weigh
ing nearly ten tons.
THE renewal by Gen. Wallace of the sugges-
tion that the Grand Army of the Republic
should request Mrs. Grant to consent to the re-
moyal of Gen Grants remains to Washington,
that organization pledging itself to rear over
them fitting monument, is receiving favorable
comment in various newspapers
AT last the Great Eastern is to be EMPLOYED
in the trade for which she was construct d,
voyages to Australia. Her paddles will be taken
out and stronger engines will be put in, with
which they hope to get up a speed of twenty
knots She had made fourteen knots with her
old engines. To accomplish the hopes of the
new owners, $1,000 horse power will be required.
A wELL-KNowN firm of. Berlin engineers is
now making device of signaling the passage
of a train by means of mercury. The detection
of one rail of the line caused by the passing of
a train is caused to press upon the elastic dia-
! phragm of a vessel fixed under the rail and
| containing mercury. The mercury is forced
| up side tube so to complete an electrical
circuit and ring a bell or work some other in
dicator.
A FIGHTING QUAKER was encountered lately by
one Tanner, a saloon-keeper in Alliance, o., who
| endeavored to assault the Friend, a noted Pro-
hDitonist. A local paper adds that the latter
| warded off the blow and choked Tanner severely,
| saying: when thee has enough say SO; if thee
cant speak nod thy head The head was soon
| nodded, and Tanner now mOurns the loss of SIS
! fine and suffered a bad choking, and still didn't
whip the Quaker
THE 7-year-old son of a Boston newspaper man
has heard too much profanity somewhere, not
from his father as the latter caims but at all
| events he has heard it, and shows alarming
| facility in reproducing it. The other day his
! father reprOved him for a breach of this kind
that had come to the parental ears. Who told
YOU demanded the hopeful. well, a little
bird told me:" The boy stood and looked out of
the window scowling at some sparrows who
| were sColding and chattering. II know" came
as an inspiration, lit was one of those
! sparrows"
THE government method prescribed for clean
ing brass, and in Use at all the United States
arsenals, is claimed to be the best in the world.
| The plan is to make mixture of one part com
mon nitric acid and one-h half part sulphuric acid
| in a stone jar. having also pail of fresh water
and box Of saw dust. The articles to be
| treated are dipped into the acid, then removed
| into the water and finally rubbed with sawdust
| This Immediately changes them to a brilliant
color. If the brass has become greasy it is first
| dipped into a strong solution of potash and
soda in warm water: this cuts the grease so that
| the acid has free power to act.
Mrs. Moon is the name of the lady who has
supplied most of the baby clothes required in
the royal families of Europe within the last ten
years The good woman has just received and
| filed commission for a cradle coverlet that
| proves TO be a masterpiece of decorative art.
! The fabric is white satin lined with pale rose
| silk and deep fall of Mechlin lace finishes the
| edge. This, however, is but the foundation for
a design of eXquisitely painted baby heads sur
, rounded by rOsebudS and fairy lilies, embroid-
| cred in their natural colors. Under this be
| Witching cOverlet repOSeS the reddeSt and latest
| little royalty in the kingdom of Portugal.
MISS Dora GooDALE, who has opened school
among the Indians in Dakota, has written to
| her friends an amusing account of the first few
days experience. The cleaning of the log school
| house and making flag occupied the first day
! The school did not open promptly, because the
| worst thing about Indians is that they will not
| get mp in the morning, but about 1890 the
| chidrtn begin to straggle in Mr.. Littletai
| brought his two both years old, " and
| when asked twins he said, ''Oh, no: two
/ wives The children given clean faces
| hands and we'll brushed hair, and are taught to
sit, stand and move properly. Religious exer
! cises. singing lessons, marches, broom drills and
| other exercises form the principal features of
| the instruction at first The Indians are unused
| to order, and their whole lives are changed by
| the new lessons.
| IT was case of heaping Goals of fire on the
| heads of those who were forced to live up to the
| provisions OF the orders issued from headduar
| tiers in compliance with the interstate COM
| MERGE law. Ana perhaps somebody's hair was
| slnged bit, though 1t couldn't be helped. But
| 1t happened this way: y well known theatrical
| manager. whose large interests keep him
dancing about the country, went into railroad
| office where he was well known. He wanted a
| ticket for Toronto, and he got it by paying his
| good money. The transaction was accOmpa-
med by some remark on the requirements of the
| new law, To which the urbane manager listened
| with patience. At its conclusion he took a
| little pad of paper from his pocket and in a
moment two passes to the theatre each for
writ ftAl1p and ha,r< ly,I
| with the remark The interstate law doesn't
| affect my house. Good-day."
| WEBSTER had an anecdote of old Father Searle
! the minister of his boyhood, which is too good
| to be lost. 1t was customary then to wear buck
skin breaches in cool weather One Sunday
morning in the autumn Father Searle brought
| down his from the garrett but the wasDs had
| taken possession during the summer, and were
| having nice time of it in them By dint of
| effort he got out the intruders and dressed for
| meeting But while reading the scriptures to
! the congregation he felt dagger from one ,of
| the enraged smallwaisted fellows, and iumped
around the pulpit, sapPng his thighs But the
more he slapped and danced the more thew
| stung. The people thought him crazy. and were
! in commotiOn as to what to do But he ex-
| planned the matter by saying: Brethren don't
| be alarmed; the word of God is in my mouth
| and the devil is in my breeches." Webster
| always told 1t with great glee to the ministers.
| WHEN Gen. A. w Greedy, Chief of the United
| States Signal Service, was in New York few
days ago he told his friends that his visit to the
| city was partly for recuperation from the OBJ
| preston Of Washington official life and climate
| He has found it difficult to get accmated at
| the national capital and is obliged to run away
! from Washington every two or three weeks for
! short breathing spell. While he was in New
| York he arranged for the construction of tele-
| graph lines TO Jupiter Inlet the east coast of
| Florida, where Congress has authorized the
| maintenance of a signal station. Gen Greedy
! says II is an important storm observation point
and that If ( ne West Indies station could be re-
established Che service from this direction would
| be greatly improved. The Signal Service has
been crippled considerably by the failure of the
deficiency bill TO pass Congress 1t contained
an appropriation OF $4,000, without which a
number Of reports from the Pacific coast and
the West cannot be continued
EVERY now. and then curious little stories leak
out about Lord Tennysons life and habits Ten
nyson's home in the Isle of Wight is q modest
one; he has only one manservant in the house,
but il is as comfortable and pleasant as most
households of the same class II is the poets
manners and customs which give il its individu-
atty. 1t is understood that visitors do not dis
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